North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 115C. Elementary and Secondary Education § 115C-284. Method of selection and requirements

(a) Principals and supervisors shall be elected by the local boards of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent.

(b) Repealed by S.L. 2025-25, § 13(a), eff. June 26, 2025.

(b1) to (c3) Repealed by S.L. 2023-125, § 1(d), eff. Sept. 28, 2023.

(d) Repealed by Laws 1989, c. 385, § 1.

(d1) Repealed by S.L. 2023-125, § 1(d), eff. Sept. 28, 2023.

(e) The State Board shall not issue provisional licenses for principals.  All principals and supervisors employed in the public schools of the State or in schools receiving public funds are required either to hold or be qualified to hold a license issued by the State Board of Education.  It is unlawful for a local board of education to employ or keep in service a principal or supervisor who neither holds nor is qualified to hold a license.  However, a local board of education may select a retired principal or retired assistant principal to serve as an interim principal for the remainder of any school year, regardless of licensure status.

(f) The allotment of classified principals is one principal for each duly constituted school with seven or more state-allotted teachers.

(g) Local boards of education have authority to employ supervisors in addition to those that may be furnished by the State when, in the discretion of the board of education, the schools of the local school administrative unit can thereby be more efficiently and more economically operated and when funds for them are provided in the current expense fund budget.  The duties of these supervisors shall be assigned by the superintendent with the approval of the board of education.

(h) Repealed by S.L. 2025-25, § 13(a), eff. June 26, 2025.